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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 131 points 2 months ago

Bullshit. ISO 8601 IS THE SUPERIOR DATE STANDARD
Tomorrow is 2024-08-30. DEAL WITH IT.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 42 points 2 months ago

Stardate, 2024-08-30T06:34:17.993Z

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago

Hilariously, Star treks "stardates" are not uniform. The format shifts season to season and show to show.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

It's standardized now

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[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

Metric is about measurements, not formatting. The date measurement is in days, months, and years for both ISO 8601 and what's shown.

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[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

America officially switched to the metric system decades ago. We just don't use it on a daily basis, but officially the US is metric.

In 1988 Congress passed the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act, which made the metric system the preferred system of weights and measures for U.S. trade and commerce.

In 1991 President Bush issued Executive Order 12770, which mandated the transition to metric measurement for all federal agencies.

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 months ago

I remember learning all metric in elementary school in the early to mid 80s much to my mother’s chagrin (any thing I learned that was different than what/how she learned in Catholic school was bad, including a second language). Then having to relearn standard in middle school. I still have to count all of the lines on a tape measure.

[-] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

As a metric-raised guy I find extremely difficult following the tutorials of woodworkers that start putting 2feet 3 inches and 9/16 in the measurements that converts to 700,0875mm wich i guess is an approximation of 70cms

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[-] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 35 points 2 months ago

While you're at it, switch over to DD/MM/YYYY for the date format. The only 2 configurations that make sense is that or YYYY/MM/DD. Either go general to specific or specific to general, MM/DD/YYYY makes no sense.

[-] dafo@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago
[-] KellysNokia@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Bonus benefit - files starting with ISO dates sort alphabetically 🧠

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[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

Overly strict for anything day to day, overly permissive for anything important.
RFC 3339 is where it's at.

[-] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

TIL.

For purposes of this post though, RFC 3339 and ISO8601 are identical. Dates in the format YYYY-MM-DD, so 2024-08-29 is both RFC3339 and ISO8601 compliant.

Not an expert, just spent around 2 minutes looking at https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

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[-] Bertuccio@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

DD/MM/YYYY is absolutely crazy. There is only one format that makes sense.

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago
[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 35 points 2 months ago

Just start being that pedantic asshole that people hate, and insist on using it. When someone asks what the temperature is, give it to em in c and make them do the conversion.

I set all my stuff to metric years ago and use it pretty much exclusively. I don't actually make other people convert, I do it for em. But still.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 14 points 2 months ago

I use metric temperature when I talk to my kids. Now they give me a hard time when I give them a Fahrenheit value! Keeps me honest I guess. I've also got my oldest using a 24 hour clock.

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I never understood why people get their panties in a twist when I use 24h times. I get that it's confusing if I drop the colon and just write 1854, but 18:54 isn't that hard to figure out, is it?

Edit: Corrected 25h to 24h, thanks to MindTraveller for ~~mocking~~ pointing out my error

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[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago

Cook in metric and use a scale!

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago

Bake in metric and rejoice when recipes actually work!

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[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Also state your height in cm.

[-] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Us metric people usually say it in meters. I'm one meter 86.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 13 points 2 months ago

Leave off the word "metre" and it doesn't matter whether you're using metres or cm. You're "one eighty-six". Is that a lazy way of saying "one [hundred and] eighty-six", quite common when talking about numbers in the hundreds, or the lazy way of saying "one [metre] eighty-six [centimetres]", a common shorthand similar to shortening "six [feet] five [inches]"? The answer is it doesn't matter!

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I’ve been doing that. I’m noticing it working. People around me may not like it, but they’ve figured out about how much a meter is

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[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

But still write dates wrong

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Year-Month-Day is the only way. It's chronological!

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[-] cheddar@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago

August 30 would be 30.08.2024.

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 51 points 2 months ago
[-] halm@leminal.space 18 points 2 months ago

This is the only rational order, descending in order of magnitude.

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[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago

This was something I found strange in the new Alien: Romulus film, why were the temperature readings in a science vessel for a space faring civilisation in Fahrenheit!?

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 13 points 2 months ago

They all keep dying in Alien films though, so it tracks with the level of incompetence shown elsewhere.

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[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 15 points 2 months ago

Oh shit are the bell riots happening rn? I gotta get prepped

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
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[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Hey, did anybody remember to turn off skynet yesterday before 2:13 AM?

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 2 months ago

Laughs in 8th day of the 30th month.

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[-] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Yes sir, and it actually has better quality picture than the DVDs, although it is way more impractical and expensive.

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[-] distantsounds@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

That would probably kick off riots

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago

Hmm, that certainly does have a certain ring to it.

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[-] stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

Is anyone here planning to watch the episodes over the time they're supposed to occur? I'm thinking of watching part 1 tomorrow due to it being the date on the calendar onscreen, and part 2 the next day.

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[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

I don't know the episode, but unless that's some extremely official time piece controlled by the government or something, it could just be someone like me. I live in the US, and several of the temp gauges in the house are celcius, including the one I keep at my desk and my in room A/C (set at 25 atm).

I also used to keep my car on km/h instead of mph just for fun and confusing anyone who rode with me why I was going 80 on local roads or 130 on the highway.

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[-] CeruleanRuin 7 points 2 months ago

Far more likely that whoever installed the clock just forgot to change the units.

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